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Monday, January 7, 2008

Environmental health, important aspect for nurses

Far before i used to think that enviromental condition has nothing to do with the nursing care, as nursing care is done inside the hospital where everything is sterilized and every stuffs would be clean and tidy. People become sick from the outside and came to hospital, in clean environment to get cured and they get cured and get back to their home. That's what my layman thinking about nursing care. But as i get along with nursing, i came to know that enviromental health is the one which plays a great role in the nursing care. Well nursing care does not only depend on the warm environment, but does depend on the the outer environment as well. The desease from the out environment is the one, which complicates the nursing care and which makes the nursing care more complex, not only that much it is the one which plays role in the discovery of the new diseases and new problems.
Nurses not only care the patient who comes in the hospital, the caring field of the nursing is vast. Public health care nurses has to go to field in the outer enviornment to care of the patient. They have to take care of the patient out of the hospital, so this sense also makes that environmental health is necessary in the nursing care.
Air pollution, noise pollution, land pollution, water pollution etc are simply known as the environmental pollution. Air pollution bring the disease, all over and noise pollution would make the problem with hearing. Not only that, noise pollution would create the problem in the interaction between each other and could complicate the nursing procedure. Land pollution is directly concerned with the people health, as the land pollution would decrease the protein, vitamin in the plants that we eat and increased lots of disease through the garbages. Water pollution, no need to be explained as the major cause for most of the diseases.

Environmental health is very important for the nursing care and nurses should teach the patient, their family and the students about the importance of environmental health and should advocate for safe and clean environment.

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